As artificial intelligence compresses the timeline between discovering a security flaw and executing an exploit, traditional defensive measures are falling behind. To address this growing threat, World Wide Technology and Horizon3 have launched a strategic partnership aimed at overhauling enterprise cybersecurity for the AI age. The collaboration combines Horizon3’s autonomous security validation platform, NodeZero, with World Wide Technology’s consulting, architecture, and managed services capabilities.

The partnership arrives as attackers increasingly use artificial intelligence to scan for vulnerabilities, craft novel exploits, and move laterally through corporate networks at machine speed. Despite this shift, many organizations still evaluate their security through periodic assessments or compliance audits. Findings from Horizon3’s State of Assumed Security 2026 report highlight the issue, showing that only 30% of organizations actively test whether a flaw remains exploitable after applying a patch, with nearly half relying solely on basic vulnerability rescanning.

To close the gap between assumed security and actual resilience, the two companies are introducing the Mythos Infrastructure Readiness Assessment. Delivered via the NodeZero platform, this joint solution actively tests whether an enterprise’s environment can withstand AI-driven attacks. The assessment provides security leaders with a validated map of exploitable attack paths, an analysis of security control performance, and a prioritized remediation roadmap focused on real business risk.

“Every major technology shift redefines infrastructure and resilience, and the AI era demands a complete rewrite of the security playbook,” said Jim Kavanaugh, Co-Founder and CEO, World Wide Technology. “As our customers face machine-speed, AI-driven threats, they can no longer rely on static defense strategies. Horizon3’s autonomous validation capabilities perfectly complement WWT’s consulting and architecture expertise. Together, scaled through our Advanced Technology Center (ATC) and global managed services, we are helping enterprises move from assumptions to definitive evidence, ensuring their operational defenses perform exactly as intended.”

Rather than relying on theoretical risk scores, the joint approach examines real exploitable attack paths across cloud, hybrid, identity, and on-premises environments. This gives enterprise leadership clear evidence to prioritize threats that present actual operational risk.

“In the AI versus AI era, it’s now even harder to decide what NOT to fix. Just because you’re vulnerable doesn’t mean you’re exploitable, you could have a compensating control in place that disrupts the attack chain. Viewing yourself through the eyes of an attacker using comprehensive pentesting is the best way to ensure your teams are fixing problems that are truly exploitable, known to be used by threat actors, and that will lead to a business consequence. With that information you can clearly articulate to leadership what the risk is whether to adjust resources or accept that risk,” said Snehal Antani, CEO, Horizon3. “By partnering with a global powerhouse like WWT we are giving defenders the upper hand by transforming how the world’s largest organizations prioritize risk and operationalize cyber resilience at scale.”

The launch of the Mythos assessment marks the beginning of a multi-phased collaboration intended to embed autonomous security validation across the entire infrastructure lifecycle.